Monthly Archives: April 2004

Ergnosis: show us your bacon

Every so often, Ergnosis sends a post to places where “language nerds” hang out (like comp.lang.functional, ll1, etc) advertising the fact that they have a few job vacancies for developers.

Ergnosis seems to be creating some sort of IDE or development system. They are going to “deliver the next paradigm of software tools” or some such.

Apparently they hit their 0.6 milestone last month. Zero-dot-six!?! Sounds like time for a beta to me. Show us the bacon!

I *so* no longer care that “Jem has a new address”

You know who you are; turn off your auto-reply-er. If I see another one of these in any of the lists I’m subscribed to, I’m gonna scream! You are making the problem worse. Reply-To: jem@loftinspace.com.au From: jem@loftinspace.com.au To: **@** Subject: Jem has a new address Thank you for your recent email. Unfortunately, due to spam [...]

A first look at Berkeley DB Java Edition

Sleepycat Software are the purveyors of the super-slick Berkeley DB, which is a native C based embedded database library. For quite a while, there has even been a Java API for Berkeley DB; but it is a JNI wrapper, so not a real 100% Java solution.

However, Sleepycat have been hard at work and have released a 100% Java embedded database library. This provides the same basic functionality as Berkeley DB, but Berkeley DB Java Edition (BDBJE) is a complete re-write in Java.